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", , , : , : : , : , ;' , ' , : '" f':1 ""':;:'};;;::..\>::,' ""-" ! :;t ;ijlztf (-iV, , Y OU want to play the new-size baIl, but you want distance too. So try the new Blue Dunlop. IIere's a ball that meets all official regulations- yet that's actually as long as the old size ball. All the new-size advantages - better lies on the fairway, easier outs from the rough - yet crammed and packed with extra yardage. Your pro has it. Ask hin1 today. CCke lmporleJ D U N L 0 p 'I MESH OR RECESSED MARKING AUGUST I b, 19.3 0 THE R.A CE TR.A CK { 'l !lre(' jOl. ] {f7lleJt()7.vJz-1 !le J-{{fJl{iicaf}pcr H{f71rlicappc,l - 'ftall GateJ at ){fratoga :;::,:;.::, . . ". ' , =- Ç, Ii 11 J AMESTOWN has I' beaten Equipoise . í \, in the Saratoga Spe- , . " cial, and, for the mom e n t, George 'l r '\ '.. \Videner is the dar- I...b, ling of the racing gods. Three stakes have fallen to the son of St. James in less than a fort- night, and who shall say he will not fulfill his trainer's prediction and his owner's hope and win two more-the Hopeful and the Futurity-in as gal- lant style? Nothing looked better than Jamestown in the paddock, and Jack Joyner was justly proud of the condition of the co 1 t he has developed. "He's never met so good a field as this," he said, "but he's better than his sire was when I saddled him for this race seven years ago." Equipoise, it seemed to me, did not move so freely, though Freddy Hopkins, who trains him for Harry Whitney, radiated con- fidence. Jamestown won the Special, as he has all of his races, from end to end. Although the barrier went up with Equipoise slightly behind the line, I do nut believe the start hurt his chances appreciably, for he was in motion. Sande, who rode Ormsby, had said to me a day or so before, "If Equipoise and Ormsby get as close to Jamestown at the head of the stretch as Novelist did in the United States Hotel Stakes, they'll beat him home." Equipoise did nothing of the kind. He moved up under the whip, hut Jamestown came away easily. .:\s for Ormsby, he was a disappoin tmen t. ..' :. ....../' c : .<, .(' W HEN I was a little boy I was told that ladies alone held the prerogative of changing their minds. Such is hardly true or wise. It seen1S to me the preroga- tive should be extend- ed to those who, in the endeavor to keep pace with the develop- ments that must oc- cur in connection with an Important race, often have to revise or modify an opinion. Whichone has come back not only none the worse for his mishap in training six weeks ago but in son1cthing like his last i\ugust form, and Harry Whitney and his friends full r expect to see hÍ1n reverse the plac- ing of the Belmont Stakes when he meets Gallant Fox in the Travers this weekend. Last week we saw him win the Saranac Handicap and two days later gallop off with the \Vhitney. Close inspection in the paddock was nearly as difficult before the Saranac as when the col t appeared at Behnon t Park, but I noted his fore hooves were heavily bound with adhesive tape, evi- dences of the quarter-cracks that have healed recently, and that \V orkman was not put up until the last possible l110men t, to a void unnecessary strain. In the race, \Vhichone was in some difficulty because of his sluggishness at the start, and he had a good taste of the whip and some hard riding before all was well. Then in the \Vhitney Stakes he made his opponents look like hacks. The spring water here, good for man and beast, has done wonders for GaHan t F ox, too; so I shall reI V on him to confirm the 13elmont run- ning. After all, it is still the case of a sound horse running against one that is not so sounel. ' I "'ONDER if you ever gave a thought to the handicap the handi- capper is under," Mr. Vosburgh said to me one afternoon last week; "Sara- toga has made so much of two-year-old racing. Tracks in the Middle 'Vest specialize in handicaps and attract the best of the older horses-such as we have-with purses four times the value of our races. T wo-year-old racing is popular here because the owners of large stables want to see their horses run and to show them to their friends." It is hard to say which was the best two-year-old ( excepting, of course,